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    The Geopolitics of Energy & Terrorism Part 8
    The Geopolitics of Energy & Terrorism Part 8
    The Geopolitics of Energy & Terrorism Part 8
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    The Geopolitics of Energy & Terrorism Part 8

    By Iakovos Alhadeff

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    The following chapters are independent essays written in April and May 2016, and they can be read in any order.

    The wars for the global resources of oil and natural gas are the topic of most essays. To a large extent, the wars of the 20th and 21st centuries were the result of energy rich countries competing to secure their exports, or the result of energy poor countries competing to secure their access to energy resources.

    Many episodes of the energy wars of the 20th and 21st centuries are described in the following essays.

    I.A.
    26.5.2016

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherIakovos Alhadeff
    Release dateMay 28, 2016
    ISBN9781311880451
    The Geopolitics of Energy & Terrorism Part 8
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    Iakovos Alhadeff

    I have studied economics to postgraduate level. I never worked as an economist though. I worked in the field of charter accountancyand I completed the relevant professional exams (the Greek equivalent of the English A.C.A.). My essays are written for the general reader with no economic or accounting knowledge, and the emphasis is on intuition. All my documents are extremely pro market and quite anti-socialist in nature. I admire economists from the Chicago and the Austrian School i.e. Milton Friedman, Ludwig von Mises, Friedrich Hayek, Henry Hazlitt, Murray Rothbard. I am Greek and English is not my first language, so I hope you will excuse potential errors in my syntax.

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      The Geopolitics of Energy & Terrorism Part 8 - Iakovos Alhadeff

      The Geopolitics of Energy & Terrorism

      Part 8

      Iakovos Alhadeff

      Copyright © 2016 by Iakovos Alhadeff.

      All rights reserved.

      Table of Contents

      Introduction

      The Islamic Iron Curtain of the 7th Century

      Pan-Arabism VS Pan-Islamism

      The Hezbollah – Al Qaeda Axis

      The Pakistan – Osama bin Laden Connection

      The American-Russian Price War for Natural Gas

      The Dead End for the US in the Middle East and the Turn to Iran

      Towards an Alliance Between Russia and ISIS?

      The Kurds Between Russia and the United States

      The Causes of the French Revolution

      The War for Sugar

      The Islamic World in 1500 C.E. and the Shift to the Atlantic

      The Travels of Marco Polo and the Silk Roads

      Introduction

      The following chapters are independent essays written in April and May 2016, and they can be read in any order.

      The wars for the global resources of oil and natural gas are the topic of most essays. To a large extent, the wars of the 20th and 21st centuries were the result of energy rich countries competing to secure their exports, or the result of energy poor countries competing to secure their access to energy resources.

      Many episodes of the energy wars of the 20th and 21st centuries are described in the following essays.

      I.A.

      26.5.2016

      The Islamic Iron Curtain of the 7th Century

      Prophet Muhammad was the founder of Islam. For the Muslim people Prophet Muhammad was the man who was sent by God to spread Islam on earth. Muhammad was a merchant. See Wikipedia link below. Muhammad was a righteous man, and his prices were that fair, that no further bargaining was required between the seller and the buyer. Remember that bargaining was an essential part of trade in the Muslim world.

      Muhammad was born on 570 C.E. and he is the man who united the Arab world. In the period 600-700 C.E. an Islamic Iron Curtain was created, which no longer allowed the infidels i.e. the Christians, to trade through the Silk Roads. From now on the infidels would have to stop at Egypt, and purchase from the Muslim traders the merchandises of East Asia i.e. spices, silk etc. Before Muhammed and Islam the Romans could freely travel through the Silk Roads. After the Islamic Iron Curtain the Indian Ocean became an Islamic Sea.

      Map 1

      During the 20th century Gamal Nasser, the Egyptian leader, wanted to unite Egypt, Israel, Lebanon, Syria and the Arabic countries of the Persian Gulf to a single Arabic country, with him as its leader. Muammar Qaddafi of Libya wanted to unite Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia and Libya in a single Arabic country too.

      Map 2

      Muhammad used Islam to unite the people of the Arab World. Gamal Nasser and Muammar Qaddafi mainly used Arab nationalism and socialism to unite the Arab World against the greedy capitalists/imperialists of the West. It was no longer a battle between Muslims and Christians, between Muslims and infidels, but a battle between Arab socialists against Western capitalists/imperialists.

      Erdogan, Turkey’s President, is using today the Islamic socialist model of the Muslim Brotherhood to unite the Muslim World. Erdogan’s path resembles more to the path followed by Prophet Muhammad.

      You can call it Islam against the infidels, you can call it socialists against capitalists, but I prefer to call it the war for the Silk Roads.

      Muhammad

      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muhammad

      For more information see A Brief Introduction of International Trade by Ryan Petersen.

      Pan-Arabism VS Pan-Islamism

      Pan-Arabism i.e. Arabism and Socialism, is the ideology that was used by the Egyptian socialist dictator Gamal Nasser, the Libyan socialist dictator Muammar Gaddafi, and other pro-Soviet socialist dictators of the Arab World, in order to attack the Arab and Persian Kings of the Persian Gulf i.e. the Saudi Family, the Shah of Iran etc. The main idea of Pan-Arabism, besides its socialist economic model, is for the Arab people to unite, in order to act more efficiently as an international oil cartel, and synchronize (reduce) their production, in order to sell oil at higher prices to United States, Europe and China i.e. "save

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